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At this point, that might be as a 6-11 point guard. Antetokounmpo always offered promise as a secondary ball-handler, but since the All-Star Break, the 21-year-old is averaging 19.1 points, 9.3 rebounds, 8.1 assists, 1.8 steals, and 2.0 blocks per game. Those numbers are otherworldly and speak of an enormous overall impact for the Bucks. They also imply that he may be ready to carry Milwaukee’s offense, which is fairly remarkable considering he’s a wing who has made just 17 3-pointers all season long and is shooting just 30....

It was a special day for the team, who broke a 50-year title drought by defeating the Phoenix Suns in six games to claim the 2021 NBA championship. The Larry O’Brien Trophy accompanied the team, who were sporting flashy suits and their diamond-filled rings for the day as they became the first NBA champions to visit The White House since LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016. For Finals MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, it was the continuation of a remarkable journey of a kid from Greece with a dream....

The display reads, in full: “Trump Lost. No more ‘audits’” in reference to the ongoing efforts of former President Donald Trump and his supporters to have the results of the election overturned. The billboard in Times Square is one of several paid for by GOP group the Republicans for Voting Rights (RVR). In a statement issued via the Republican Accountability Project website, the group said it was launching the $250,000 campaign as part of a concerted effort to get lawmakers to “reject frivolous audits of the 2020 election results....

Shots are “not yet available in all” stores, the site notes, and customers are encouraged to check for updates on when, where and to whom immunizations will be provided. “Priority groups are determined by federal and state public health officials,” it adds. How to book COVID-19 vaccinations at Giant Appointments must be booked online and cannot be scheduled by calling your local Giant pharmacy or customer services. “By scheduling an appointment … you are attesting that you meet vaccine eligibility requirements as determined by state health department officials,” the company notes....

Brandon Crawford was a hitting machine Monday night. The Giants shortstop tied a major league record with seven hits and drove in the game-winning run in the top of the 14th inning in an 8-7 victory over the Marlins. MORE: If A-Rod wants to play again, where might he wind up? Crawford was 7 for 8 on the night with five singles, a double, triple, run scored and two RBIs....

Without Wilson, the 0-5 Giants are going with the combination of Brandon Jacobs and recently re-signed Da'Rel Scott in their backfield. Given that they have a bye coming up in Week 9, it's likely the earliest Wilson will return to action is Week 10. That's also when their original No. 2 back to start 2013, Andre Brown, is due to come back from his leg injury. Wilson's season started with him quickly landing back in coach Tom Coughlin's unofficial doghouse with his fumbling problems in the Week 1 loss at Dallas....

Giants running back Rashad Jennings is trying to make a public amends for doing so to both his coach, Tom Coughlin, and his quarterback, Eli Manning. MORE: Every team’s worst-ever football moment | Week 2 NFL power rankings Jennings told reporters that he was told not to score a touchdown late in the Giants’ 27-26 loss to the Cowboys on Sunday night. Wednesday, he published a guest column in the New York Post apologizing for divulging the information....

The Giants themselves, meanwhile, are 22-59 over the span, and they’re about to begin a new season with Brian Daboll as a first-time head coach and Daniel Jones in a make or break season. Barkley, who dealt with an ankle injury and COVID last year, will undoubtedly hope to be a focal point for the Giants offense. He isn’t, however, being treated like the focal point of much of anything....

Bonds, in San Francisco as the Marlins hitting coach for the first time in a different uniform, got the standing ovation/curtain call treatment on Friday night. MORE: The best of Bonds | An insane breakdown of his highlights The Giants also played a video featuring his biggest home runs. Hopefully it was the one they tweeted from their main account — because the highlights play over the beat from Dr....

Giants coach Ben McAdoo is questioning calls by the officials, especially those involving superstar wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. “I would say I thought there were a few times (Sunday) that he may have been interfered with,” McAdoo said, via ESPN.com. “But that is part of the process. We’re going to send it in to New York and to the officials (in the NFL office) and let them take a look at it and get some feedback from it and some clarification....

An announcement is expected Friday. MORE: Greatest opening day performances for every team | Commissioner: Rose deserves ‘fair hearing’ | Dodgers collide, Puig hurt The Giants have won three of the last five World Series under their leadership. Bochy has 951 career victories with the Giants and Padres over 21 seasons. Sabean is MLB’s longest-tenured general manager with the same club. PHOTOS: Crazy ballpark food | Historic spring training photos

It’s the Chase for the Sprint Cup and things happen, from wrecks with teammates to broken parts and pieces. In the same way that Jimmie Johnson’s string of six championships in eight years defies logic, JGR teams always seem to have some of their worst problems during the Chase. It was no different Sunday in the Sylvania 300. Denny Hamlin had a fuel probe issue as the team was only able to get three gallons of gas into the system on one early pit stop and five gallons on another....

That should be your reaction upon seeing this enormous alligator that wandered onto a Florida golf course recently. MORE: John Daly doesn’t like PGA Tour drug testing | Rory McIlroy as Michaelangelo’s ‘David’ | Photos of the week The fiasco went down at hole No. 7 at Myakka Pines Golf Club when golfers trying to approach the green got hung up by the biggest gator EVER. (I might be exaggerating, but probably not....

In the early hours of the morning of Thursday, September 24, Malik confirmed that the couple had had a girl, and he shared the first image of his new daughter holding his hand. The “Pillowtalk” singer captioned this image on his Twitter, shared at 2:51 a.m. BST, “Our baby girl is here, healthy & beautiful [praying hands and heart emoji] to try put into words how i am feeling right now would be an impossible task....

General manager Mike Gillis has been fired, the team announced. The Canucks, thanks to a post-New Year's free fall, were officially eliminated from playoff contention on Monday night as "Fire Gillis" chants filled Rogers Arena. They may have worked. "On behalf of my entire family, I would like to sincerely thank Mike Gillis for his hard work and the many contributions he made on and off the ice during his tenure,” Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini said in a released statement....

“Italy chose us,” Meloni said, according to the Associated Press. “We will not betray (the country) as we never have.” On Sunday, Italians voted in their first national election since 2018 and elected Meloni, who was once a Putin admirer, to become the nation’s first female prime minister. The results signaled a turning point for Italy, a nation whose last broad unity government was led by Mario Draghi, an establishment figure who was staunchly opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....

Thalia Townsend, 13, was told in May she couldn’t play for West Carroll Junior/Senior High School. MORE: NFL players’ high school yearbook photos | Kids at NFL training camp That prompted the American Civil Liberities Union (ACLU) to step in, saying the case qualified as gender discrimination under the Constitution, according to the Jackson (Tenn.) Sun. The school agreed to let Townsend play, which naturally made the youngster’s day....

Sophia Larson drank from a water bottle in her mother Stephanie Alvarado’s home in Rifle, Colorado, on the night of December 10, The Mercury News reported. After the girl said the water was “yucky,” Alvarado and her cousins Daniel Alvarado, 27, and Bertha Karina Ceballos-Romo, 26, realized that she had drunk from the bottle they had been using as a pipe when they smoked methamphethamine that day. Fox31 reported that court documents say the three watched Larson hallucinate for more than three hours and didn’t call for help even when the girl told her mom she was “seeing monsters and demons....

Early Sunday morning, police were called to the scene to check on the safety of a man in the town of Killamarsh located in Derbyshire County, England. Inside the home, police found the bodies of Terri Harris, 35, her two children, Lacey Bennet, 11, and John Paul Bennet, 13, and Lacey’s best friend Connie Gent, 11. Gent was allegedly staying over at the family’s house for a sleepover that night....

The girl, identified as Bella, lives in Lincoln, England. Tyla reported that Bella, born with half-blond, half-brunette hair, chooses how she parts her hair based on whatever outfit she wears that day. “I don’t really have a favorite shade, it depends what outfit I’m wearing,” Bella said. “A lot of school friends do want my hair and some ask if I dye it.” Her mother, Jenny Hill, said the genetic trait is believed to be caused by poliosis, the decrease or absence of melanin that can occur in head hair, eyebrows, eyelashes or any other hairy portions of the body....